'This is China ... leave immediately': US Navy plane warned over South China Sea
Updated 0848 GMT (1648 HKT) August 10, 2018
High above one of the most hotly contested regions in the world, CNN was given a rare look Friday at the Chinese government's rapidly expanding militarization of the South China Sea from a US reconnaissance plane.
Aboard a US Navy P-8A Poseidon jet, CNN got a view from 16,500 feet of low-lying coral reefs turned into garrisons with five-story buildings, large radar installations, power plants and runways sturdy enough to carry large military aircraft.
During the flight the crew received six separate warnings from the Chinese military, telling them they were inside Chinese territory and urging them to leave.
'None will be spared': students fear reprisals over Bangladesh unrest
As protests subside, authorities are using onerous digital laws to target demonstrators
The list began spreading from phone to phone on Saturday, just as police were starting to fire teargas and rubber bullets at protesters in Dhaka demonstrating for safer roads.
“Please pass these addresses to trusted people through Messenger or text message,” it read. Names, phone numbers and locations were listed: sanctuaries for students fleeing a police crackdown.
“If anyone needs shelter around Jigatola or Dhanmondi, come to my place,” one student wrote.
This is what modern Holocaust denial looks like. No wonder British Jews are so scared
In an age of fake news and alternative facts, history is up for grabs. Convince people to question Auschwitz and what else can’t you challenge?
In 1959, accepting an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, the Jewish comedian Jack Benny said: “I don’t deserve this award, but then I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”
In doing this, he summed up the experience of living in Britain as a Jew in the latter half of 2018.
To live as a Jew in Britain in 2018 is to occupy a period of rare historical privilege. There are no pogroms to drive you from your homes; no ghettoes to house you in poverty and illness; no prohibitions on your movements, religious expressions and entry into certain professions; no seizures of your assets; no camps to mechanise your mass murder; and no threats to your existence that could honestly be described as either credible or imminent.
Ethiopia: Ethnic tensions continue to smolder in Somali region
Following ethnically motivated violence in the country's east, Ethiopia's new prime minister Abiy Ahmed wants to strengthen and stabilize the autonomous region — although the government has offered little response.
Ethiopia's eastern region remains a hotbed of unrest. Last Saturday, mobs looted the property of ethnic minority groups in Jijiga, the capital of the country's semi-autonomous Somali region.
"We asked the state military for help, for them to save us," one resident told DW. He asked not to be named as he fears for his life. "People here are dying. They are even being attacked in the church of St. Michael, where they sought refuge," he said. The weekend riots reportedly resulted in at least a dozen deaths. Thousands are said to have fled earlier.
Venezuelan patients roll out hospital beds to protest medical shortages
With protesters leaning on crutches, sitting in wheelchairs or even lying in hospital beds, the demonstration held outside the main hospital in Maturín, Venezuela was unusual, to say the least. Patients in the trauma centre took to the streets to demand a reduction in waiting time for important operations. Our Observer explained that the lengthy wait was caused by shortages in both medicine and equipment, a symptom of the health crisis shaking the country.
On July 25, several images were posted to Twitter (mostly on the accounts of people close to the opposition) showing patients along with some doctors and nurses holding signs and protesting outside of the Dr. Manuel Núñez Tovar University Hospital in Maturín, the capital city of Monagas state.
"We can’t carry out operations because we don’t have gloves, compresses, antibiotics or even anesthetics"
US migrants: Judge orders deportation plane turnaround
A federal judge has ordered a mother and her daughter to be flown back to the United States, after learning they had been deported mid-appeal.
The two were being represented in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who said they had fled "extreme sexual and gang violence".
The judge said it was unacceptable they had been removed during their appeal.
He reportedly also said Attorney General Jeff Sessions could be held in contempt of court for the deportation.
Mr Sessions introduced tighter immigration rules in June and victims of domestic abuse and gang violence no longer generally qualify for US asylum.
The mother and daughter were part of a case filed by the ACLU and the Centre for Gender and Refugee Studies on behalf of 12 mothers and children who said they had fled violence but were at risk of deportation.
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